The Sun. — London, England, 1808-01-12 00:00:00

/ a • • • lklylp-IGottebburgli Dublin. Dq2,- , ! ..lEutten: burgh, z Duthin, 3 Waterford'. • PRICE OF STOCKS TTITS DAY At TWELVE O'CLOCK. • Cfmsols for Opening 644 I Rai. Ann. - 431 THE SUN‘ powtts QUIB DICSKL /ALBUM AVDIAT L 0 ND 0 .N; TUCSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1808. Intelligence, we understand, reached Town this inorning, that the American Congress have resolved, by a very'large majority to put the A& prohibiting the importation of any articles trom 'Gre4t Britain, ilito force. Tuts morning another GottenburB4 'Vail arrived, but it adds.very little to the intelligence which we hid, previously received. The two Danish Ships of the Line, which were ilia Port in Norway*when we ;,w)lt. possession - pi the IJ.inisli Fleet, have returned to Copenhagen. The Duchy of Meeklerthurgh is at 1.,1)5th..t0 be evacuated by the French ; orders to tart etUA have been issued.; . but an Adjutant Com rualt;lant and a lia!talion are to rentaip for the pur pse of pi-eve:l6l)g the introtluaion of any English Mcrchandize. Xt appears that General &WARY is extremely ac live.in endeavouring to induce the Itudsian Govern 7. went to adopt the same system of confiscation and plunder, with tespeCt to English property, which BuoIgAPARTE has enforced in the minor States on the Continent. He has uot yet, however, fully ,succeeded. The following Letters we believe, con ta4l:3 the latest' information upon that subjed " ST. 1).3T1 SI36IIGHp• Nov. 22,- (Dec.:4).—A I)Tll:tation Oiiice, fur the settlemelt of all claims ),.et , ,N con the ilt4ssi,in and Engiish,.i9 now establish d, acid the Counseflor-ofState.4All , ;ovv isappointed Preiide,it : the Merchants who are to compose tfie (: 4) ;nio.:tfo.e will be nominated by the Minister bere atter. la the Mean time, afr arrest is ordered on all 'bills and debts owing to the - English,. the payment 'i)1: Which Will be ena&ed by the said office. None .L established I\l,.2fchants. Will. be.per- Ulitted to leave this country till our Govertunent ascertain that. Russian prOpeity in gligland has Leen respedted, and all bills drawn from halide duly Accepted 411 d paid." • :ilotat of the. Letters received by the Mails which arrived yesterday give a most. distressing account of the situation 'to which the unfortunate KiNg of I's vistit has been reduced. Though still invested ...vith the title of Royalty, and still notpinolly pos -8,1,6in5, considerable territories, her isitot only. unable, front the continued exa6tions of his insatiable Con- 'fiiueror3, to keep up an appearance of Regal State, but he has scarcely the, tnegns of maintaining the ' rank of priv;,te Gen!letuzib: His ward is diS .ctiisSed; his attention:4. Eecluced, and his table never ,911taitis more than two covers. Such is the situa 6Dn of the VII w!.O, at the of the year t 805, bold in his lionti the fate of the CiAtinent 1.~~ r~-w .' ...~~) j /1. ~~,. 61 . 11 Cilklll,Efi COTTPN Was, C3{pened to sail yes- why, with the Aliiplaur, from Fiilmoulb, The Transports will follow. him immecliatoly, uncler the convoy of the 414/ope,. • T,-tter4 from Lighon Of the 94 incl. reached Town yu;t-rdity ; they contain no Intelligence of import ,a ,4e. The 144ehange had fallen to 25 per Cent. Accounts we, e alto 'received, frOrn•Bilhoa of the it3d ult. ; st that ti.ue tut accounthad reached .1 place of the French' haviog entered Madrid. • , with much conck2rn we find that the Rotnnn . Cf4tholdoi of ntl reinlved to fenew their Ipplic.omn to Flt 5 M J %V.l* Y for the . extinclion of all pcnal re.striainin; the,:dt. The y tiwc is tn:“.iii.ntly not favourable to the. of soh a aubje' a, and as the wiser part of the Cathelle Body uthst. be aware °lam impolicy of • su . ch prQten , in US at the v,yestnt critical mo- m ew., we cannot hot f.;:el much surprhie that they shotll snt"fa t o he' s° . ftr irdidenced by or 11 2 ,1111: iwrsoui to consent to hold 0 r:lc..:.!ti;ig fue soc:i au Gl3jt.-::1 at this Rwful io the duty an,l the in_ t icst 1, 1 C.V:4O of 111611 to .!:;ivo staunch 1 c.0. ; .v.1 . ;,15tip , , , 0rt to that Con ion NN Loch kCpt. all the theadful events w t t ut:my States, which have its ccutre, and brought all of it, the iron yoke of a 11,11.1,i- lict u.:l thou contiluAo to struggle; „ our just rights, end there :cart be no t will be ill: objc.4.tof Govertim ti t, a ,i 1 period, to rentkr every braneb of the 1 I y poislLle, .celisteot with the ilk" of the vihole. cr ?- hy we ~11) our psio 3 , , / oil the condust of Lord STRANGtORD, ti elative to the affair of Poringll, in answer to the 11 merited attacl4'of the Opposition Writers 'on that ati4able and accomplished man. ... . While Lord, RonEaT FITZGERALD was trancrilly enjoying himself at home, what was " the writer Of songs about blue eyes" engaged in, and how were -his moments employed ?.At.a-rnost difficult period;, for no one but the. Morning Chronicle will be fool hardy enough to deny that a Nation, trembling in .ihe - grasp of a rapacious and powerful Tyrant, and compelled to purchaSe a . precarious and feverish re pose by sacrifices eternally. renewed, and eternally increasing, can ever be considered 'as,otherWise than in a state of danger and alarm :—At a most i difficult period, Lord STRANGFORD becomes - sole Resident •at the COUrt of Lisbon. Master cf their langUage, he sedulously cultivates the friendship of the Portu guese. He . watches over the commercial interests of his countrymen with increasing anxiety : By the extent and accuracy of his.information, he is enabled to forewarn them of approaching evils, and by the influence of his charmer, and the excellence of his understanding, to persuade the Prince of . Portugal,. in despite of the.perfidy and hostility employed in Fonnteraaing his advice, to embrace a measnrsvno less gloridus:for himself . than advantageous to . this Country and to Europe—to fly from slavery and op pression, and in another hemisphere, to ere& a nobler throne with happier, destinies. Even when M . the Prince listened to the voice of hirelings arid trai tors,•• and was on the point of falling into the snare which the common enemy of mankind had spread fbr him, Lord STRANGFORD lost neither his activity nor his sense of duty. to his Country, nor his long cherished ardour for the welfare of the PRINCE RE GENT ;,but, on the Appearance of Sir SIDNEY SMITH, whose Expedition :form's' a most' happy contrast to that of LOO ST. VINCRNT, returned to his mission, . and prevailed on, the Portuguese Court once more . tUadopt H those generous and salutary councils of which they had lost sight Or a' tiine and to sail under the proteaion and • auspices of Great. Britain , to thlt mighty Empire which so s ; impatiently await cd them. ' . triumphantly executed hi 4, mission, and taken an affeaionate leave of the Prince whoselhO nour, and whose life, perhaps, he had Saved, Lord STRANGPORD returns to his Country to receive' the just reward• of his merits in . the applause of his fel low-subjeas, and the• approbation of his gracious Sovereign. That he has not been disappointed in eithei., mud give pleasare to every well-disposed mind which will learn, with additional satisfac tion, that he has been raised to that' station which Lo'rd ROBERT FITZGERALD SO long occupied (which Mornin,r Chronicle, perhaps, thinks be should still occupy), and appointed Resident Minister to the Court of Brazil. With all the great and good qualities whiCh the Morning Chronicle gives the man whom it delights to honour, and which are. enumerated above, it thinkS' he may yet prove.. inefficient, " unlesS he possess some weight with the MeMbers of the Court by his previous intercourse with tl4m." We might rest, if necessary, the justification of Ministeri in the appointment of ,Lord STRApGFORD, ou this simple point. On whose side is the " intercourse i" Qn the man who has, constantly, resided with the Portuguese Court during two years of unexampled anxiety, Shared their distress, partaken their dangers, and finally contributed to rescue them from im pending destruelion ; Or . on him wh s o, if, remem bered at all, a remembered, perhaps, with dislike, 4 having foregone their " intercourse," and, at a safe distance, looked on the crisis of their fate with ,uninterrupted tranquillity and self-possessif;n ? Yet: it'is for making a 'decision. in 'which Government must have been anticipated by all but the followers' of Faaien, that the Morning ChrOnicle is.pleased to . say*" We are not without hopei that , the public voice may yet be raised to - chastise Ministers for their pernicious conduClin this instance, if it should fail to make Om review and abandon it." The pur port of the last , words cannot be mistaken intinniation is of as little avail as flattery. ,The sa lary of Lard Itopu'r FITZ'OIiALD has ceased ; and if Mil:iisters he induced to tnakeany,alteratlon, nei ther reason nor justice call upon ,then to make it in favour of that Nohletilan. After labouring through two ctil,a - trms to prove that Loral STRANGFORD has neither wit nor wealth, nor worth, the Morning Chronicle adMits that upon reading the Ministerial accounts he, was induced to give_ hint some Creckit for his , conclua " ; and he de sires his readers to recollect t that he was the first tO 'express his hopes that his deserts might not , go unrequited.7' Probably a subordinate situation in B"raakit i , While another received a large ;salary for • doing 'nothing of home, was in his thoughts;: But when the Gazette appeared, and spewed that hi s Lordship had concluded hi fusel f withctlual tirMness, prudence, and success, in a business of the hig'heSt import to the interests or, his Country ; when, in, faue,it became evident th:t he co mid no longer re:. main in subordination to Lord AOB 4 FITZGERAtx, the 4larm w taken, and the world laformed, tt ith all tint parade of importance,, and'all thti afritaation of disiuterest, that, iii the,f4pinion of the Morning Chronicle, the promotion of such 4, man wag an injustice to the deserving, and a sacrifice of the best interests of the Country." We auspeet that' it) fortnitig this opinion; as the Chronicle say‘ he did, on the Gazette, he was some what precipitate. If he had fortunately waited for .the dispatChes 41Veneral JUNO; :he would have found ihat Lord STavNarozo, whom he declares " to have done nothing," aCtually did a great deal. — That Officer who' unluckily was not aware of the dilemma to which he was about to reduce the Mor ning Cloonicle, explicitly gives all the discredit of influencing the, PRINCE REGENT to the desperate measure of embarkation, 'to the English Minister.--, He thought, good honest soul, " that the PRINCE was well satisfied of the kindness meant by BUONA. , I'ARTE towards him; 'and determined to await his visit (to say the truth this Wps gtually did case) ;" " but the+ 'pernicious persuasions of the English changed his determination, and precipitated his..de pat Lure !." --It is with reltuaance that we point out this decisive evidence in favour of Lord STRANG . roue to the notice of the writer the Morning Chronicle, because we know that his.candeur is al ways excited in favour of an enemy's statements, and that he Will think himself obligorl, at - the cost of many a pang, to retraa his own opinion in favour of them. • If the declaration of the General be not sufficient, we can venture to assure'.•hitu that' when ,IIoONA PARTE &account of the same event mai; 25 its appear ance, it will corroborate, in every instance, the pre viOns lamentations of JUNOT, and attribute this last spirited aa of the PRINCE of the BRAZII, to Lord ' S'eRANGPORD. From such authQrities, we believe the Morning Chronicle Will, not dare, to appeal. ; if he we desire otir Readers to observe that it will be for the first and only time. • We trust that what. we have.sai.l w;1 have the di - e& ofabating.the blind ne4ignity of the writer laded to. He already complains that " We, reply to his attacks on .the present Ministers, by sheaving that their immediate, predecessors Were infinitely More obnoxious to theM." Even this should teach him prudence; It with 'our limited information we can retort his charges so efreatially, the beSeech Mtn to retie& that the eonsequeticeS will be yet more fatal to his friends, when his continued insolence and in justice shall•have compelled .those who possess the damning documents of their rnalversation to lay them before the PLblic. The annals of the British Nation may be searched in vain for an Administration less vin dialve, less prone to trample those whO lie at their • e 0 ... • • mercy, than the present : yet the forbearance of the patient patriarch wasat length exhausted by injustice. and it may be worth the consideration of the'Partizans of the, most unpopular Ministry that ever excited ,the terror and detestaiien of . a country, whether . some forecast in the choice of their writers, and some. tempeiance in th'.l prosecution of their abuse, . may not .be expedient, to avert that replicatiOn which must invOlve" both them and their employers in everlasting shame and disgrace. The Prince of WArms will not, it is said, go to Court on the ensuing Monday, but will pay his con gratulatory compliments to his Royal Mother, in the forenoon of that day; at the Queen's House. The Princess of WALcs will go to the Drawing-room on :Monday neat; but her Highness's mother does not mean to be present. .A report has of late been afloat in military-circles, that a very large Expedition will ere king be fitted: out, the destination South America, to be Corn -manded by Sir J. Moore, with some of our ablest Generals • that Government has determined that the 'stain or the British arms shall be wiped off in that :quarter. It thought that now the conquest- of Spanish Americq will. be both an easy and more valuable acquisition froth its neighbourhood to the 'Brazils. .MajoreGenero Ss ERAROOKE now commands in Sicily. Brigadier-General CAMPBELL, 6 tst, is second ht command ; and the Honourable Brigadier -General STEWART,. who commanded.. Rosetta, likewise re mains at Messina. The 20th Dragoons, 28th,. 3 lst, and all the strong Regim.ents,were left in Sicily by Sir ,TonN lVfoona. Gen. 811E11B/100KB has alorce of 9000 men tinder him : many ()dicers and some men• are now going out to join by the Fleet abont to sail for the Mediterranean. A circular letter has been issued in Ireland, by Sir' ARTHUtt Wei.f.aBl.EY, dated Dublin Ca s tl e , D e 7 cetnher ct, . tipon the . Q.rlik.'ers of Yeomanry Corps to appoint tilted days ofeNercise in each month for each,respeiaive corps, and urging them to com plete each to its establishment with men fit for ac tive service, and of approved loyalty. . We have received NeW York tapers to the, t of December. They bring •intelligence from the seat of Goveriiirient to the stlis The f o ll ow i ng i s the only article of interest in their contents : WAsinoToN, Dco. 7.:—A,,few minutes after ~twwlvt o'clock, this.day, a Confidential message was recci;vod from the .Presiclent of the United States. The galle.ries were immediately Cleared; and the o, , ors dosed. - 1 romtioed'in'the . Capital until dusk, when, as.there appeared no prc)bability of the doors being opened,' I left 'it. 'Plus Message probably et:h r,iins the dispathps said to, be no later than the, inthtitiober;. whatever may be its purport, or Wl)ether it involves the mo mentous quesuQn of PeAcie or War, yet uncertain:: GOTTEN. 111,11 L. • • FIE-I.SING.PURGII4 Nov. 29.--The 11.u.ssian "rnre7; ",ClALoreus, had his audience of leave of his . SWediah Majesty on the 17th inst. and the next day set out fdr 41. The Swedish Commercial Agent r llr. Guam, was arrested at Copenhagen on the 17th, at . two in the morning, and committed to prised ; but on the 27th he was set at liberty, and permitted to remain in his own hone under a guard till the requisite examina dons shall have been made. ~) ~ dOITNIIAGEN, DEC. s.—Our two Ships of the Line the Louisa Augusta and Prince Christian, un der the command -of the Captains SNEDGEF and JEPEN, h4ve safely arrived from Norway, and coms into our road; Yesterday afternoon they. chased, in the Cattegat, au English Brig, which, however, be-o!' ing too much a head of them, escaped into a Swe4 dish port. They did not meet llr the Cattegat with, with any other of the Enemy's Ships; M. FRASEE. must certainly already have gone with his Convoy, or he would no doubt have .fallen into their hands. The above two Ships of the Line have sailed again to-day for the Baltic,.. ~,.. A . A. _ ,:.:, , i . 1 1 ~ , Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses JULIA SOPHIA, and-Louisa. CHARLOTTE, arrived here With . their suite the clay before yesterday in the afternoon, on their way frorn'Ploen ; they arrived on the 26th of November at Rendtburgh, where they dined With his Majesty, and the next day continued their journey. His Royal Highness Prince VERDINAND is likewise arrived in this capital. To remove the fears of those who dare not yen» . ture to sail with their cargoes from fear of meeting with the - Enemy's Cruizers; it. Will he 'sufficient to state that there have arrived here within these, f9w . days two ships from Naslow, one from Warding-- burgh, one from Nyburgh, and two' from Prussia, which did.not 'Meet I.Vith a single English Cruizer.. 9n the 3oth of November all the English Ships left the Sound, and Sailed for the - North Sea tileY were very briskly fired on as they passed the COtl9 of Croneuburgh. 'iAn English Ship, laden hemp and linseed oil, commanded by• Capt. Jottti, ScriatzsiLs, and bound, as he pretendeckfrom nigsburgh. for Elsineur, but which had stopped - am:CI, time at ' Idandscronai wished to take advantage of the departureof the English Fleet, and sail unciew it,s, protthion ; but not havin't been able to joiivit in time, was taken by a Privateer, and carried it Elsineur. A' Notice was issued from the General PoSt.Office here of the 4th of this month, enjoining all the Post Officers, in consequence of superior ordevs, to receive'no letter for any foreign town, or for Altona, -Husain, Tonningeb, Friederickstadt (in the Melly of Schleswig), Elsineur, FriedricUshald, and Kons vinge; till the person appointed by Government. for that purpose 'shall have examined it, and beel satisfied that the said letter contains no means, direSl Or. indirea, of correspondence with England,' ar With British Subjeets, and shall in consequence, for secnrity,..have affixed his seal to such letter.il . (Copenhaen G4izette.) EXTRACT d 1 A LETTER 11tOM scumattf, DEG. 5, General Laver. transmitted to oar- Government, on, the 2d of this month, the following Letter frogl his Highness the Prince of NnurenATer., which the Government iintnediately caused to be published: • Fou lain ble4u, Nov, I.G, 1807. "The will of his Majesty the .Emperor is, ,that the- country of Mecklenburgh shall be evacuated by the French troops, with,the exception of an Adju ' tint Commandant, who shall remain at Rostock, with a Battalion at most, to take care that no Eng lish inerehandize be introd need into . the said coun try. You will, before your departure; General, Ste that all necessary dispositions are made for the car' rying into execution of this measureY Last Tuesday morning seventy-four casks - of .amounting to upwards of 100,0001. were re moved from the: Bank, in three waggens, to tho Diandee Arms Wharf, Wapping, where they were put on board the Fly-boat, - and conveyed to Graves.. end. On Wednesday4morning the, Boat sailed . to Nurthfleet, and part the Specie on board the Frigate ; soon after which she . got under weigh. Thil treasure is a remittance to the King of Swe , littlt. A Gentleman belonging to the Bank, and Kt vett, the Officer, guarded it by land. On Friday laSt there was a meeting . of the Nor' folk. Agricultural Society;- . at th&Maid's Head, ill tl4O City of Norwich, preparatory to the General Meeting, which is shortly to take place . at Lynn. At that Meeting there will be a premium proposed to be given to the person who shall devise the best and cheapest mode of feeding horses: A few nights baCk as - a servant of ED*Allu atifr katks, Esq. of Deal, was returning hoMe from Rams gate on a very fine spirited mare dfhis Master's, the animal unfortunately' took fright•at SOME,' bin& the - road, and by a sadden . plung e diimonmed her rider , • who was extremely br u i se d ; after which, running laway, 41).0ine. in ,contad With a winchnill„ 'then at •work ,; .the sweeps of which • struelt.the'pOoF:ani: rn'alsotertibly i n t he he a d ; as ,t os f ra 4t u re her scu) -1 . '‘%' - 33' ho ever, afterwards • Caught by the se" atid rilden home- (a distance of above tweiV es , • • • Silk& w hen • sbe tuts undergone the, operation of .t . rePh:litlh l Z, having had 'about two inches of 0 3, cranicip taken off, by the Veterinary Surgeon , , 'and 1411, it is now thoutyht recover.